George Packer

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

American Novelist

Nushrat Bharucha

Casting directors said that I look like an urban girl with sharp features. Maybe that is true, but we are living at a time where a lot of advanced make-up techniques are available.

Indian Actress

No I.D.

There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.

American Musician

John Burroughs

The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.

American Author

Yves Behar

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Swiss Designer

Renzo Piano

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Italian Architect

Maxine Waters

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

American Politician

David Lammy

I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.

British Politician

Brandon T. Jackson

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

American Comedian

Vikrant Massey

I've hardly ever played urban characters.

Indian Actor

Use 'urban' to differentiate city life from rural or suburban contexts.

City Contrast

'Urban' implies high population density and infrastructure developed for living close together.

Population Density

Mention 'urban' to discuss social issues specific to cities, like housing or public transportation.

Social Challenges

'Urban' suggests a connection with modern, city-based cultures and trends.

Cultural Scene

Use 'urban' to describe something as fashionable or current, reflecting city trends.

Trendiness

 These foxes have actually started to change. Their noses are getting a bit shorter to adapt to their more urban lifestyles of scavenging. And that's not all. Their skulls are actually changing shape in a way that could mean their brains are getting smaller. This is similar to the changes dogs went through when they became domesticated.

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 Urban parents demand school vouchers. You may support these efforts or not. Whether you get what you want depends on how adept you are with power, which brings us finally to what you can do to become more powerful in public life. Here, it's useful to think in terms of literacy.

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 that we rely on for food is going up in price. So honeybees are important for their role in the economy as well as in agriculture. Here you can see some pictures of what are called green roofs, or urban agriculture. We're familiar with the image on the left that shows

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 also known as particle nucleation. Aerosols are everywhere in the atmosphere, and they can block out the sun in polluted urban environments, or bathe distant mountains in a blue haze. More importantly, a cloud droplet cannot form without an aerosol particle seed.

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 and a move from rural to urban living that makes having large families less economically advantageous. Finally, countries in advanced stages of industrialization reach a point where both birth and death rates are low, and the population remains stable

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 and observed us the other really exciting moment was when we had set the camera traps up in a few urban areas and we got our first shot of the links using the underpasses that came after weeks and weeks of the camera traps not working and that

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 the red fox is known for its adaptability and is now a species of our urban environments just as much as the rural countryside but despite their intelligence and versatile nature these beautiful creatures sometimes need our help

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 cameras are remote cameras are setting nightly angle it down the single hardest thing about working in this park is finding locations where you see urban wildlife and the city we walk the trails

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 in search of jobs and a better life Maura Brenda's keep moving to the city this is a global trend in urban slums around the world the population is set

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 are now full of life creepers have been planted to grow over the outermost branches this is a new urban world that we have

Urban

Relating to a city or populated area.

Often appears as...

Having the sophistication or coolness associated with city life.

Often appears as...

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